Animal Description

Appearance

Skuld stands significantly taller than the average female height of 5’5”, and with her ‘lithe’ appearance, she looks well maintained if you consider that she’s nearing 50.

Her eyes are a light blue.

Casual is Skuld’s clothing style of choice, commonly seen wearing either tank tops, jumpers and, albeit more rarely, shirts, commonly of the plaid variety. As for the lower half, you won’t see her wearing much else other than dark coloured skinny jeans and a pair of boots.

When winter rears its head, Skuld brings out a huge-ass black winter-resistant coat
from her youth in Canada. It’s about 20 years old now, but it gets the job done and she sees no reason to buy a new one.

After having her ‘gross-ass bush hair’ for 6 years, Skuld had the wavy and pure black mess cut. But that was a while ago now, and it’s starting to come back.

Makeup is not really Skuld’s thing and she rarely ever makes the effort to put anything aside from a bit of light eyeshadow, mascara and a bit of lipgloss on - the latter one being rare compared to the other two, saved for important things or her gigs.

Skuld has had both ears pierced various times in the past, but currently has no earrings to place in them any more. The only piercing that remains is one that only ‘personal’ people will ever be able to see; a simple black bar, through the right nipple. This piercing was taken out after she was infected and it tried to heal over.

A tattoo of the Aquarius constellation sits at the top of Skuld’s spine, the first tattoo she got when she was young. From there, her whole back developed into a whole constellation map, at the correct orientation for Aquarius being at the peak, with the shading of a clear night sky providing a backdrop for it all.

Personality

Tends to zone out hard in situations that don’t affect her, or just in moments of silence

Gets very distant when tough topics or sad memories are brought up

Smokes a lot of marijuana to distract herself from these thoughts

Doesn’t care about a lot of things, but those things she does, she cares about deeply

Speaks softly and smoothly, though often mumbles

Pansexual, not that she realizes yet, so she doesn’t hold the title

Shows a lot of elements of having a potent form of Asperger’s Syndrome, though she was never diagnosed, nor does she know what it is

Has a very difficult time waking up, so, don’t wake her up

Recent: Once a nervous and depressed wreck, a simple confidence boosting suggestion by Amy has made Skuld feel good about her actions

History

The young couple of Magni and Saga Vollan became tired of their busy, hectic lives in Oslo, Norway, and decided to move somewhere entirely different. After a drastic move, the place they chose was a small family house in Alexandria, Ontario, feeling like Canada would be a much more relaxed place for them to raise a family.

It wasn’t long after their move that Saga became pregnant, and gave birth to her first daughter on the 12th February, 1971. This girl was Skuld Hel Vollan, her middle name being after her grandmother.

Even though Magni and Saga hoped to expand their family past one child, it came as a surprise to them when Saga became pregnant not even half a year after having Skuld. Eventually, their second daughter, Verdandi Vollan was born on 20th May 1972.

Skuld and Verdandi were very close as sisters, growing up together just one year apart. Throughout their lives, they always did things together, as if they were best friends as well as siblings, to the point where people thought they were twins.

However, three years after the birth of Verdandi, Magni and Saga decided they wanted another child. Their third daughter, Urd Vollan, was born on the 23rd October 1975, and they decided their family was complete then.

Urd was quiet and kept to herself and her studies, which was a contrast to the other two sisters. Nevertheless, Skuld tried her best to get along with Urd, though slightly unsuccessfully, but unlike Verdandi, who didn’t get on with her very well at all.

After she finished high school, Skuld headed off to McMaster University in Hamilton, to study a Minor in Astronomy.

During her second year, at 20, she joined a student house with a few friends, who had other connections too. One of these friends of a friend was Freyr Grimr, a fellow Scandinavian who had moved to Toronto with his family a few years ago.

Whilst it took a while for Freyr and Skuld to start speaking, they bonded over their love of music and playing instruments. Before long they were deeply in love, and spent most of their time together as a couple.

After another few years, Skuld graduated before Freyr, as he was doing an extended scientific course. Whilst she went back home and stayed for a short while, she couldn’t bear to leave him, and bought an apartment in Toronto, just for the two of them.

From then, Skuld and Freyr had a good and simple life together, eventually getting a small house, and being happily in a relationship. The two of them agreed to wait until things settled down in their lives before they’d proceed with any family aspects however.

At the age of 40, Freyr finally proposed to Skuld, and they decided that it was finally the right time to have children, and begin a family of their own.

However, shortly after, Skuld finally woke up from a knock at the door. It was the police; to give her the news that Freyr Grimr had been killed in a car accident on the way to work.

Broken, Skuld became a recluse, being fired from her job for never turning up, starving herself as she often forgot to eat, and her whole life spiralling downhill. People she thought were friends showed their true colours and disappeared from her life, and even though family tried their best to help her, it wasn’t enough.

Finally it all got too much for her, and with the only person she said goodbye to being Verdandi over the phone, she escaped it all, leaving behind everything other than some clothes, a few personal possessions and her van.

After a long time driving, Skuld randomly decided to stop off in California. Money came from doing gigs at the local bar with her guitar, as well as selling marijuana from her van.

With the latter making her a decent amount of money, she decided to open a tiny shop, filled with various creepy, eclectic and sometimes slightly occult objects. Whilst she barely had any customers, it wasn’t her intention. She just wanted something to distract her from herself.

At the age of 46, Skuld met one of her drug customers, Jonathan Miller, or as he was known, Fray. With him commonly being the last one there on a night, they often smoked together, and hung out quite often, becoming close friends.

On some of the occasions when Fray would visit, either the shop or her van, his girlfriend would be with him, a girl by the name of Amilia Hale, but known under her much-preferred moniker, Kam. Despite it taking longer for them to become close than it did with Fray, the two nevertheless also became friends.

Now, the trio have decided to move from California, with Skuld leaving behind everything once again, in an attempt to move on with her life. This is what led them to Colorado, and somehow in the bustling Cordova.
Now:

Other

Face Claim: Liv Tyler

Skuld’s first language is English, and she has a Central Canadian accent. She is entirely fluent in Norwegian, proficient in French, and can speak a bit of Latin from her studies.

She has an iPhone 4, which was new when she bought it. It has a crack that webs going diagonally from the left corner, from when it vibrated off a table when she was too depressed to answer it after the trauma.

Being a musician, Skuld can sing and has played guitar since she was 8. She had a few guitars, but only one she owns now is an acoustic one Freyr bought for her when they moved in together, 24 years ago. It’s old, but she maintains it well, having replaced various parts.

Skuld has owned her VW Campervan for nearly 10 years. Her and Freyr bought it as a dream they’d had for a long time. It looks like this.

Skuld is now in possession of Kam’s zippo lighter, which was a gift from her uncle on her 10th birthday.